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like stepping back in time
returned to the past
If a place feels like stepping back in time, it feels as though you have returned to an earlier period.
Hear it in real life
Was the village very modern?
Not at all; it was like stepping back in time.
Walking through the old market felt like stepping back in time.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: It felt like stepping back through time.
Say: It felt like stepping back in time.
The established expression uses "back in time," not "back through time."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
feel like stepping back in time; be like stepping back in time
Your turn: say it out loud
Walking through the old market felt like stepping back in time.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
like stepping back in time
returned to the past
“Walking through the old market felt like stepping back in time.”
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